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Saturday, July 26 through Saturday, August 2, 2025
SHOR T S PR OGR AMS

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Conversations Moving Forward The Kids Are Alright

July 26, 2025 2:00pm • Redfield Auditorium July 27, 2025 2:00pm • Redfield Auditorium July 27, 2025 7:45pm • Clapp Auditorium
Fiddler on the Moon: Judaism in Class Reunion Esperance to Fremantle
Space Dramatic • Ruolin Dai • China • 2024 • 10 min. Dramatic • William Sebastian Turner • Australia • 2023
Documentary • Jeremy Newberger, Daniel A. Miller, A young man attends the memorial of a teacher who once bul- • 18 min.
lied him in high school and brings a camera to record it.
Not having seen his Father since he was an infant, Rob searches
Seth Kramer • USA • 2025 • 31 min. for him in Fremantle. Tracking him to a bar, Rob approaches
Finally. An answer to the question that has plagued scientists, Lazybones him as a stranger to discover who he really is and his reasons for
theologians, and comedians for millennia: Will Judaism survive in Comedy • Douglas Williams • USA • 2025 • 13 min. leaving.
space? Starring Neil deGrasse Tyson, astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman After a devastating breakup, Moss Henry searches for a sense of
and Jessica Meir, and a quorum of rabbis and researchers. purpose by volunteering as a dummy for a women’s self-defense F*ck That Guy
Goodnight class. Dramatic • Hanna Gray Organschi • USA • 2024 • 18 min.
Dramatic • Isabel Pask • USA • 2025 • 15 min. Middleground 1992 Connecticut. Desperate to keep the attention of her intoxi-
cating older best friend, Frankie sets out to prove that sex is no
A hospice nurse revisits the comfort and fear of childhood when Documentary • Alex Herz • USA • 2025 • 20 min. big deal.
she enlists a babysitter to take care of her for the night. Four young adults with intellectual disabilities in Fresno, CA
Resaca begin their professional careers, relying on a patchwork of family Kopala
and community aid while navigating a fragmented system of
Dramatic • Joe Borg • UK • 2025 • 11 min. state services. Documentary • Anderson Vetle Sevild, Hugh Francis
• Norway •
When a severely hungover man finds himself on a reluctant
walk with a new neighbour, the pair must overcome a language Ploujét 2024 • 33 min.
barrier to find common ground and a much-needed support Dramatic • Andrea Nordgren • USA • 2024 • 14 min. Driven by childhood trauma, Norwegian snowboarder Krister
system. A family goes to a lake to spread their father’s ashes and gets Kopala prepares for a dangerous first descent. He finds refuge in
the mountains. But is he seeking presence and life, or a way to be
Shouting at the Sea caught get up in an odd conversation—what to call human meat. closer to death?
Dramatic • Benjamin Verrall • UK • 2024 • 20 min. River Oaks Revenge of the Language Master
Reconnecting after years apart, two friends revisit their teenage Dramatic • Kalyani Persaud • USA • 2025 • 11 min.
haunts in the seaside town where they grew up. As a young gymnast prepares for competition, a sinister truth is 1757B
Terms & Conditions revealed about her coach. Comedy • Michael Beeson • USA • 2024 • 7 min.
Three young students discover a machine that lets them say
Dramatic • Mar Sudac • USA • 2024 • 15 min. Simple Machine ANYTHING they want.
A broken computer exposes cracks in a couple’s relationship. Documentary • Sara Hendren • USA • 2025 • 23 min.
A short essay about an architect, an adaptive tool shop, postwar Who Are You, Nanu?
prosthetics, and the strange duality of classical physics and Dramatic • Anjini Taneja Azhar • USA, India, Belgium •
quantum mechanics that organizes all our lives. 2025 • 15 min.
After her Nanu’s (grandfather’s) ceremonial cremation brings her
to the Holy Ganges River in India for the first time, nine year-old
oddball Isha befriends the phantom of her Nanu’s rambunctious
seven year-old self and discovers the journey after death.
“I’ve always wanted to attend the
Woods Hole Film Festival,” is something
I’ve heard a few times since I started
with the Festival this past year. My
answer: “Me too!” I am so impressed
by the dedication of the Festival team
to bring thought-provoking films to
What is That Thing? Cape Cod, to champion independent
This year’s Festival art features the fascinating Wednesday, July 30 filmmakers, and by the community
axolotl. The axolotl is a type of paedomorphic 10:00pm • Captain Kidd of collaborators and members who
salamander, meaning they retain their juvenile support the Festival all-year long. It’s
features into adulthood and never undergo Vanna Pacella been a joy to meet so many wonder-
full metamorphosis. Unlike most amphibians, ful people and celebrate the joy of
axolotls remain fully aquatic throughout their and Tom Davis coming together in community and
lives, sporting external gills and a perpetual
smile that has made them a favorite among cinema! Whether this isyour first or
pet owners and researchers alike. Vanna’s haunting vocals, keyboard solos, thirty-fourth Festival, or somewhere
and profound lyricism will suck you in and in between, I hope you will enjoy the
Native to Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City,
axolotls are critically endangered in the wild caress you with its carefully crafted imagery. films and the Festival experience, and
due to habitat destruction and pollution. Tom’s guitar playing makes a statement- be inspired to connect and collaborate.
However, they thrive in captivity and are each solo layered with brilliant callbacks- it We need amazing stories!
widely studied for their incredible regenerative is tasteful, engaging, and beautifully raw.
abilities—they can regrow limbs, parts of their JoAnn Cox
heart, and even sections of their brain! Debut Album Listen out July 25.

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